AWID- Tomorrow is Earth Day at AWID!
By: Bridget Burns, WEDO Project and Communications Coordinator
For the past few days, WEDO team members have been actively (and eagerly!) participating in the 12th Forum of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) in Istanbul,Turkey. A gathering of thousands of feminist activists from around the world, the AWID Forum is a space for engaging in transformative dialogue on progress, challenges, opportunities and next steps for the women’s movement.
On Earth Day, WEDO is …
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by Rachel Harris, WEDO Advocacy Coordinator
This morning when I walked into the opening plenary at the 2012 AWID Forum I felt ready to be stimulated and motivated by feminists from around the world in provocative discussions, panels, roundtables and side conversations. However, it quickly became clear that I had underestimated the power and energy which comes from being in a room full of passionate feminist activists. The feeling of working together towards a common …
Women on the forefront at the Earth Summit ’92 in Rio.
A personal journey by Irene Dankelman, Former WEDO Board Chair
Thinking of about 20 years ago, I really feel privileged to have been part of the movement that shaped a gender perspective into sustainable development. In the early 1990s I was working with the United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM, in New York as their gender-environment advisor, preparing for the upcoming United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. On …
Bella will forever be in my heart
by Larisa Skuratovskaya, Global Council Member, International Museum of Women, Friend of WEDO
Once, my friend Zossia brought me to meet a young man who’d come to Moscow from Seattle because he’d fallen in love with a Russian girl. The man, Mitchell, and I engaged in common conversation until Zossia told him that I was friends with a few women’s activists from the United States. Mitchell asked me: “Who do you like the best?” “Bella …
